Quotes by Alphonse Karr

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

The more things change, the more they are the same.